Jared

Jared or Jered ( Yereḏ, in pausa Yāreḏ, "to descend"; or Ἰάρεδ Iáret; Yārad), in the Book of Genesis, was a sixth-generation descendant of Adam and Eve. His primary history is recounted in . Modern scholarship The biblical details about Jared, like the other long-lived patriarchs, are in the book of Genesis. In terms of the documentary hypothesis, the passage about the descendants of Adam (Genesis 5:1-32) is attributed to the Priestly source. A parallel passage (Genesis 4:17-22) which contains a genealogy of the descendants of Cain, is attributed to the Jahwist, another ancient version of the same original genealogy. The two genealogies contain seven similar names, and the Jahwist's version of the genealogy has Irad in the place of Jared. Tradition His father Mahalalel, great-grandson of Seth, son of Adam, was 65 years old when Jared was born. In the apocryphal Book of Jubilees, his mother's name is Dinah.